Your ranter should be forced to breath nothing but car exhaust until he changes his mind.
Google says the average cost of electricity to US customers is $0.12/kwh. The most expensive state is Hawaii at $0.37/kwh. So it's $1.92 to charge the battery and $0.0768/mile cost on electricity. The http://www.chevrolet.com/volt-electric-car.html page says the MSRP is $34,185 before tax credits. Garbage in, garbage out, axe to grind, axe gets ground. -- rec -- On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, Folks, > > > > I am on the list of a right-wing ranter. Every once in a while he sends > me something that is specific enough to be refuted. Or confirmed, for that > matter. I wonder what folks on this list thought of this. > > > > See below, > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Rusty [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 01, 2014 11:20 AM > *To:* Undisclosed-Recipient:; > *Subject:* Math (On Electric Car) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This sounds like a normal way our government saves us...................... > > > > > > > > > > > > > Math (On Electric Car) > > > > > > Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the > Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors. For four days in a row, > the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to > the reserve gasoline engine. Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including > the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon > gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. > > It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 > hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. > In a typical road trip, your average speed (including charging time) would > be 20 mph. > > According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of > electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The > cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked > up what I pay for electricity. I pay approximately (it varies with amount > used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. > > 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge > divided by 25 miles = *$0.74 per mile* to operate the Volt using the > battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that > gets only 32 mpg. $3.20 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = *$0.10 per mile*. > The gasoline powered car costs about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000. > > So the Government wants us to pay *3 times as much, for a car that costs > more than 7 times as much to run, and takes 3 times longer to drive across > the country.* > > > > *REALLY?* > > > > > > *"GOD BLESS AMERICA"* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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